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Get into the habit of logging before you consume. If it's not worth the trouble of logging, then you must not want the item enough to eat or drink it.

It depends upon the scale. My current scale measures to the one tenth. Well, it purports to measure to the one tenth. Whether it's actually capable of being that accurate or just claiming that it is, who knows.

My evening meal usually consists of either a Lean Cuisine or a can of soup and I add an entire bag of steam-in-bag veggies for extra nutrition and volume.

It doesn't sound like lack of a plan is the issue. The actual issue is: "life stuff happens and I fall of the horse and have to restart". Hiring an online bodybuilding nutrition expert won't stop life from happening. Figure out why you keep falling off the wagon and develop strategies to maintain your desired calorie…

The barcode isn't information from the manufacturer. All a barcode does is look up the user-entered MFP database item associated with that barcode, just like if you typed the name into a search bar. Go by what's on your box. You can edit the MFP database entry (if it doesn't have a green checkmark) to match your box if you…

I'm about 5'6" was at about 285 pounds when I started this try at weight loss. I was very sedentary, about 1000-3000 steps per day. I don't like a moving calorie target so I experimented to find a mix of foods that were satiating enough at a calorie point that was slightly below maintenance for my goal weight at that…

They are on a doctor-supervised VLCD to lose massive amounts of weight quickly. People need to consume protein and dietary fat but can get by without carbs so those get cut way down. If you've seen the dietitian talk to any of them, the diet is basically moderate protein, low fat (gram-wise), and low carb.

Yes. All calories count. A few here and there can really add up.

The easiest thing to do is to create another account to adopt the foods that you don't want anymore. Make a change (such as a minor edit in the name) using the other account and the item will shift out of your My Foods.

MFP gives a default sugar goal as a percentage of overall calorie intake. The recommendation that you mention is likely for added sugars. MFP doesn't differentiate between added and intrinsic sugars at this time.

It's perfectly fine to move your calorie goal around daily. Flexibility will allow you to be comfortable which will help with sticking with your plan over the long haul. Weight loss will come from an overall calorie deficit over time.

When I started MFP, I very carefully weighed out my portions to match the suggested serving sizes. It was a "light bulb" moment when I realized that I wasn't constrained to what someone else thought my portion size should be. I was in complete control over how much of something I consumed. I changed my serving size to 1…

Think of calories like money: some can spend within their budget without much thought and others need tight budgets in order to avoid overspending. Lifelong logging isn't a failure. It's a tool that's available if needed or wanted. If someone needs a crutch, they need a crutch. I'd rather spend 10 minutes per day tracking…

So what's your maintenance game plan? The end of the weight loss phase isn't the end. If you go back to your old habits, you'll end up back in your old body. Some keep logging strictly, some keep logging but more loosely, and some can find an eating method/pattern that has a structure of some sort but without logging. As…

Your body counts it, even if you don't. It really depends upon you and how you handle it. You may have no problems and you may want to eat everything in sight. You may have problems the first few times you try but then learn how to have reasonable untracked days. You may need to track to maintain and you may be able to…

Weight gain/maintenance/loss is all about calories. Macros are for making sure that you get your nutrition (at least enough protein and fat) and adjusting them can help with satiation if you are having a problem with that. Once you get down to those last few pounds, weight loss slows (because you don't have as much excess…

No. What you could do is pre-log a day and then adjust your portion sizes or planned foods to get you closer to your desired macros.

Don't wait for your body to tell you. My body would happily consume 4000+ calories per day. Weigh/measure your portions for the amount of calories that you want to consume (make sure that your goal isn't too low) and stop when you hit that point. For volume, eat small portions of calorie-dense foods and large portions of…

Work smarter, not harder. Creeping gain means that you are consuming slightly more calories than you are burning over the long term. If you can shave off some of those calories, you can eat and exercise essentially the same way you do now but with a creeping loss. Only make changes that you can live with forever and you'll…

Weight gain/loss/maintenance is about calories, not how you eat. If you like eating that way, you can keep doing so. You'd just need to eat a bit more overall so that you are at a maintenance calorie level rather than a deficit calorie level.

There's a difference because MFP already includes some step calories, even for sedentary. In either case, the calorie burn is an estimate. Pick one way and follow that for a couple of months. If you lose weight faster than expected, bump up your calories a bit. If you lose weight more slowly than expected, lower your…

Counting macros gives you a calorie count since protein and carbs each have 4 calories per gram and fat has 9 calories per gram. What many do is to have protein and fat macro goals which they aim to meet or exceed and then let carbs fall where they fall while staying close to their calorie goal. That's a lot easier than…

My preferred candy bar (masquerading as protein bar) is the Nature Valley Protein Chewy Bar - Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate flavor. My preferred cookie (masquerading as protein bar) is any flavor of belVita Protein.

You can rename your meals into time blocks, such as 4 AM to 8 AM, to get a general idea of times. Premium has time stamping available on the Android app (and maybe the Apple app) but not the website.

I "snack" on a big mug of hot tea. It keeps my hands and mouth busy and puts a little something in my stomach. My feeling of hunger is sometimes really thirst anyway so liquid is a first line of defense.

Suggesting the reduction of calorie intake is not too simple and doesn't imply gluttony. Creeping weight gain is a thing for many. An average of 250 calories over maintenance per day would lead to about 26 pounds gained per year. The opposite is also true and that means that shaving calories here and there can lead to…

I only pre-log in the sense that I log immediately before I eat. Spontaneity is important to me. Food plans make me feel too constrained. Pre-logging makes me stop and think if I really want something and, if so, how much of it I want. I own my intake. If I don't feel like logging it then I must not want it enough so I…

I went into Libra to check before I posted and it had no problem storing weights in the database from a couple of hours apart and graphing both of them.

Libra, which is for Android.

The MFP default macro percentages aren't set for keto. It looks like you've set an aggressive rate of loss so you've been given the MFP minimum calorie goal of 1200 for women. The default fat percentage (30%) at 1200 calories gives you 360 calories from fat. Fat has 9 calories per gram. That's why you were given 40 grams.…